Implementation of the story line
First of - book - good
movie - isolated/good - movie and game connection - bad
-There's been suggessted before a radio channel or newspaper's.
This is really good ideas I think.
Combine this with the following and it'll be "fantastic":
-Enemy attack on group's of players or entire city's (there's a lot of NPC's in the city's-have them grouping and rageing on special commands/occations/enviroment's. Like the mad bomber we all have had killed in our youth in missions)
-Let some (2/3) from FC roam the street's of a city or an area to wip up the player's from the mission mode's and get them grouping and sosialazing. - this will also let the FC know their own game a little bit more from a player's wiew;) .
-We have mission's that ask you to do something, but if you take the mission and not complete it, there is no consequence. Not in the line of puniching the player in any way, but more to that if you take a mission to kill the med bomber, and do not complete - the bomb goes off somewhere.
-Let NPC''s place traps/bombs(small)/wild animals or it's like so that it's up to the player's to disarm/remove/evacuate/kill/whatever.
-All of this - let it be on the radio channel- let us know what's going on right now at what location. It will make us player's come crawling out of our mission caves and pull toghether for a common goal. And experiencing the "sosial" side of AO along side being of use to our faction/city/guild and feeling more a part of the game.
Just my two cent..
On storylines... (Yes, I said storyline'S)
I'm very much the lone operator... the lone operator with a few associates.
Wandering around and just keeping my eyes and ears open I've managed to get involved in about two storylines at once. One of them is loosly based on the Duster attacks... and another was a fragile issue of Intern-Ops and the Clans...
Now I'm starting into my own little line of story... whilst still being involved in these two.
I'm an agent who plays the role, and I am being used as such.
Which is nice. (Fresh air... aaah)
But seriously... I've always said, if you can't get involved in anything with depth... start to create your own. *smiles*
Anyway, that's all I can say on the matter... remember, Mum's the word... shh.
*fades back into the shadows*